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Bootradr

Sunday, December 20, 2015

This show is another recent Winston Remasters share of his Live Omega # series of Led Zeppelin 1980 concert projects.

This superb recording is of the band's second show as they opened their final tour in 1980. This is not a mix of the soundboard and audience sources used like in the previous Dortmund, Germany show I uploaded. This is a matrix and that means both the soundboard and audience tracks are used for the full show (where audio existed). When it is a mix one of the sources used (or more than one source) gets used to fill in gaps in another source's audio that is missing. A matrix is really stacking and synchronizing at least two sources to play simultaneously and that is what the project of this show encompasses.

The band plays a lot better on this second night than they did the previous opening night. They are much tighter and the show has that energy that just was not as prevalent in my opinion the previous night as they played Dortmund, Germany.

I have not had a chance to listen to this entire Winston Remasters project yet. In fact, as I make this post I am trying to pick up where I left off earlier this morning.

The sound seems to really be mixed well and with the audience matrix source it gives it a more live feeling too. I may be wrong and I will have to check this closer, but there may be a slight delay in the synchronizing of the audio too. I'm not sure if this was reverb added or if the synchronization is just not 100% on? I can hear this more easily as I am listening to "In The Evening" again. I had noticed it this morning but was unable to check closer then. This may have been added on purpose for all I know. I just know the audio sounds really clean, well mixed, and superb as far as the fidelity of it goes.

This is another recently shared and new Winston Remasters project. He shared it on Dime a week or two ago as well as his Dortmund Live Omega # 1 project too. I hope this is an indication he is working on some of the 1980 shows since I really do like the work Winston Remasters does in most cases.

I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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This is the excellent sounding Winston Remasters copy of the first Led Zeppelin show on their final 1980 tour. This was the band's first tour since their tour that was cut short by the illness and then death or Robert Plant's son in 1977 as the band played in North America.

This is an excellent sounding recording (and remaster by Winston Remasters) that uses the first generation soundboard as the primary audio source with a first generation audience recording as the patch source in the audio. Winston Remasters has started back lately on some new releases of the Live Omega # series shows for the 1980 Led Zeppelin concert recordings he has worked on. There have been some other Live Omega # shows he has put out in the past and I likely have uploaded at least one or two of these other dates/shows in the past.

* TLH CDDA/MPEG test wrongly indicates audio could be lossy but the FA (frequency analysis) and an independent check by my friend "techtuts' prove it is in fact lossless audio indeed! Not only those details but this was an upload by Winston Remasters himself and he would not be sharing lossy audio we all know.

This show starts off a little rough and then the sound quickly is readjusted by the sound engineers on the soundboard from ShowCo. But the band is also a little out of whack too in this first show. Robert Plant is not remembering the song lyrics right or singing the right verses at the right time and Jimmy Page is not playing in the right spots or timing at different times. It sounds like the whole band is off when it comes to timing really. They get it all together before the show ends, but it does take a little time.

Since this is the band's first show since 1979-08-11 (10 months earlier) and this was their first tour in three years (last one ending early on 1977-07-24), I have a feeling they just were a little rusty. A lot had happen in the three years since Led Zeppelin had cancelled the rest of their 1977 tour when the news that Robert Plant's son, Karac Plant, had become ill and died before Robert Plant was able to get back home from the North American tour.

In 1979, Led Zeppelin played four concerts preparing for their 1980 come back. They played two shows in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 23rd and July 24th, 1979) referred to as the "Copenhagen Warmups" and then they played the two Knebworth Festival shows on August 4th and August 11th, 1979. It was close to a year later when they played this first show in Dortmund.

As the story goes, the only two band members that really were preparing and practicing and really responsible for the band's 1979 LP Presence were Robert Plant and John Paul Jones. They responsibly were in the studio and making the music for the album as band members Jimmy Page and John Bonham were running wild with their addictions playing a large part in controlling their life. There is no doubt that Page had become addicted to heroin at this stage, and it does show in his performances in 1980 as well as later performances in the following years such as the 1983 ARMS performances when he returned for performances for the Ronnie Lane benefit concerts. Thankfully sometime after this Page was able to get clean. As for Bonham, he never broke free of his alcohol addiction and he died not long after this 1980 European tour concluded as the band was preparing for their North American tour. He died from asphyxiation as he passed out drunk and choked to death in his own vomit after a failed practice attempt over at Jimmy Page's home on 1980-09-25 and this officially was the end of Led Zeppelin. These problems that were ongoing are noticeable in this first Dortmund show I think. The band still sounds good but they sound far inferior to their normal capabilities too. The end was drawing closer than they realized.

It is sad to listen to the band's lackluster performances in many of the 1980 European shows we have. They still sounded great, but they were nowhere near their earlier capacity in the way they played and they had cut their shows way, way back to about 100 - 110 minute shows. And this was short for a Led Zeppelin performance on average. It was easy to tell they were not performing at their best here in 1980 I believe.

We've got a lot of shows from the band's two months of touring during June and July of 1980 to compare performances to. They were getting better as they warmed back up but they were not anywhere near their best as they dealt with problems they all had going on in their personal and semi-private lives as well as their public lives too.

But even after the downfall and end of the great Led Zeppelin occurred, it was just a matter of time before the individual band members would resurface with a fresh and new history to continue on with. Just very little of the continuation would be comprised of Led Zeppelin reunions. But thankfully; and due to benefits, awards, and finally in December of 2007 just because they wanted to; there would be a few Led Zeppelin reunions with the remaining band members and with John Bonham's song, Jason Bonham, playing on most of them in place of his late dad.

Overall, I look at the 1980 Led Zeppelin shows as the documented end of one of the greatest bands ever to exist. It is an excellent documentation of where they were at, both good and bad, at this point and time and I really feel that musically you can hear, both good and bad, where the band was too.

One of the most compelling and greatest sounding pieces of music I feel in the ending shows in the band's documentary of audio is in the song "Stairway To Heaven". I think that the band plays this song ever so beautifully in most shows. Since this is the one staple song that everyone has heard of whether they know anything about Led Zeppelin or not, whether they have heard of the band or not, it is fitting that this would be the song that tells the story audibly in their ending. It sounds like Jimmy Page's solo in this song cries out that they knew the end was coming but not in a bad way. It has a tone and just and overall sound to me that is singing out "it has been a great ride" and "thank you, goodbye, and we've enjoyed the ride" I feel. If this sounds a little nutty to you, just listen to the song and have this thought in mind. You might change your mind.

On this specific night in Dortmund, Page messes "Stairway To Heaven" up and almost doesn't come in with the solo when he should. Again, this is a good example of where they were at and the problems they were having. But on a night such as the 1980-06-29 Zurich show, the song and solo are flawless showing the emotion and fine points the band still had in them.

As I upload a variety of the 1980 concerts (I have not uploaded too many over the years) concerts as I plan to do in the upcoming months, pay attention to "Stairway To Heaven" and see if you cannot understand better what I am saying about the song, the way the band plays it, and it being a perfect staple and story itself in the 1980 ending of rock and roll's number one iconic classic rock story. 1980 was the turning point not only in Led Zeppelin's history but music history all together. And music would never be the same again after 1980 in so, so many ways.

I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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Friday, December 18, 2015

This DVD of the 1998 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant performance in Milano, Italy was requested about a month ago and I am finally able to upload it today. This is an excellent recording and a pretty good job by the taper of getting some good, close up video of the show too. It is not perfect and at times the camera either is messing up or the generation of the tape may be the issue causing the video to look a little grainy. But it is still an very enjoyable DL DVD and one of the best performances by Page on "No Quarter" in the 1998 tour I believe.

SONGS/CHAPTERS:01. intro02. The Wanton Song03. Heartbreaker04. Ramble On05. Walking Into Clarksdale06. No Quarter07. When The World Was Young08. Going To California09. Tangerine10. Gallows Pole11. Heart In Your Hand12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You13. Most High14. How Many More Times (medley)15. I Can't Quit You Baby16. Whole Lotta Love17. Rock And Roll

The audio is very good and on the great-to-excellent side of things I'd say. It too isn't without flaws but they are the kind of flaws I can deal with too. The audience is very excited but the recording seems to be pretty well balanced in not having a lot of audience noise during the music. The audio is straight from the video recorder's audio track on the master VHS. There seems to be some distortion in places but it is not bad and that would be almost expected using an older 1980's - 1990's VHS video camera.

As I mentioned already, the video goes between real clean and sharp video to a grainy, pixilated looking video throughout the show. I'm not sure of the cause but the sharing party I got the show through mentions they think it was due to a camera malfunction. I don't think this is the case however. To me, this seems more like a lighting issue as well as the generation of the tape too. It may even be an interference introduced in the transfer of the video tape when it was done or possibly heads that needed cleaning that could have caused the issue? The camera's chip set (and it may not have had one) may have been an issue too but the drastic change I believe is due to this tape's transfer and generation most likely.

There are some tracking issues at the bottom of the screen but they take up a small portion of the screen and again do not ruin anything. A good head cleaning might have fixed that on the video recorder or the SVHS recorder it had been transferred too? It's all speculation on my part of course and this is not meant to belittle the great quality and job done on this DVD project either. I've just seen similar issues occur when I had old VHS recorders with heads needing cleaning or even adjustments and alignments in years past. I have a room right now with about 6 - 10 4-head Hi-Fi VHS recorders in it and even an SVHS recorder that all work great. They just need head cleaning and alignment of heads to function at 100% full quality and nowadays you have to do this stuff yourself since repair shops have disappeared in today's disposable digital society.

The video is listed as a first generation VHS tape that was transferred correctly and digitally to a digital PC format. But I think the generation may be a little higher than what the party building the DVD was originally told most likely. I could be wrong though. I'll upload a sample of my favorite song in this show and most of it is in the higher quality, cleaner looking moments too. But you should see the moments where the video changes and looks grainy with no question of where it may be.

The band sounds especially superb on this night and they seem very musically charged! Jimmy Page especially does and he plays like he is playing in a 1975 Led Zeppelin show more that like in a 1998 Page & Plant show it seems. He is putting his heart and soul into the music and the solos are longer in many songs as well. Just when you think he's about to finish up and get back into the chorus of the song, he adds something new and picks it all up again just like he did in the day. "No Quarter" is one of the best versions of the song played on the tour I believe and what makes it great for me is Page's long and awesome solo and what he puts into it. "Babe I'm Going To Leave You" is the same and he plays it with a longer version of the 1998 additional part he added in during the tour. Robert Plant sounds like he is having a great time and feeling a little nostalgic or in the "Zep Daze" too it seems. The rest of the band is doing an excellent job as well and there is some really great, John Bonham looking almost, video of the late Michael Lee banging away on the drums at full speed and force very powerfully. I was always amazed by how well he pulled off taking over John Bonham's shoes in the two tours Page & Plant used him on their two tours. There is no replacing John Bonham of course. But if you needed someone to try and do an excellent job, well Michael Lee was the guy I think.

I really wish I had been able to have watched this full show again before uploading it overnight. It has been a few years since I've seen it from start to finish. But I did watch a good amount of it last night and some as I was sick and trying to recover from a 7 day stomach virus over the last week. It was hard to pay attention to anything as I slept on the couch and kept running back and forth to the restroom all week. But I did get to lay back and listen and enjoy it through the home setup off and on.

I'm really grateful to "ZoSo64" for sharing this DL DVD in February of 2010 on Dime and all thanks for sharing it. He not only shared it but he also built the DVD using high quality methods and he created the artwork for the show too. He was unable to recall the information on the Italian taper that recorded the show and he got it from. But a huge thanks goes out to him too!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Sunday, December 6, 2015

This is an excellent video of Fleetwood Mac from 38 years ago (and a few hours) as they finished their tour in Japan on the Rumors tour. The video seems to be sourced from about 3 different sources from what I can tell. A good remastering of this video would make for a great project. However, it is already a great-to-excellent copy I think and a very enjoyable viewing experience.

I had mistakenly put this show into a folder for December 6th otherwise I would have uploaded it yesterday on its anniversary. So it is one day later than its 38th anniversary due to my mistake.

This is not the complete concert unfortunately. I'm not sure if the full concert has ever surfaced to be honest. And as I mentioned earlier, I think this is a video sourced from three different sources. One source has no time stamp, one has one time stamp, and the third has three time stamps on the screen.Some of the various sources for this DVD reportedly are from a TV program that was being made for the Japan show(s) that never got released and some live performances as well as outtakes (or rehearsals) too. It is a confusing mess of information really.

The quality varies in the different videos. There is some static in some songs that seems a little heavier in the right channel and other songs are clean and clear. If I really knew the story on these videos and the whole project it would be easier to explain the differences in the video/songs. But the songs were arranged in the correct order they were played live reportedly. So even though the December 5th video is not complete at least the video is in the right order with what is on it.

I like Fleetwood Mac and that helps me rate this video higher. But if you don't like them, well, this might be only as high as a great on your scale (see ratings). But to me, even with the flaws, I still rate this one as a great-to-excellent DVD.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Saturday, December 5, 2015

I've been browsing this new EVSD release of the show a million and one copies already exist of today. These releases this time are named after the previously named sets already released not too long ago by EVSD and they're called Flying Circus - 40th Anniversary Edition.

The recording actually sounds excellent-to-superb but so did the previous releases too. This biggest issue I have with the 9 CD set is the first three discs which are the matrix discs of the audience and soundboard. When doing a matrix, most people have either learned or know not to press the envelope on volume because when you combine the tracks and then mix then into one track the waveform is going to grow larger. And I presume this is what EVSD did to this show. The waveform for the first three, matrix CD's is clipped very badly and the audio in pretty much brickwalled and in the red. It is exactly the opposite of the way it should have been done and looked.

We can be glad that the last 6 CD's, or the audience recording and soundboard recording discs, are not clipped horribly. The waveform looks nice and the audio sounds excellent-to-superb. I'm listening to the stereo audience recording now and it sounds really nice. In fact, they may be my favorite 3 CD's out of this whole 9 CD set. Page's guitar and the mix sound superb!

Thanks goes to "ghostface" for sharing this on G101. I realized after I got it that he got the three separate downloads from Dime posted by "jesusmahdi". So a big thanks goes to him for the initial share and artwork scans as well.

I'm a little confused why the length of the matrix recording is 4 to 8 minutes shorter than the audience and soundboard recordings of the show. It seems it would be longer or at least as long as either the audience or soundboard (whichever was longer) recording.

The more I listen to the show tonight I realize the audio really is superb on the recordings. Even the clipped matrix recording on CD's 1 - 3 really sound excellent and even superb. They still should not have messed the audio up like that but the sound is not bad and I like the mix. So we got kind of lucky on this one because I expected the audio to sound a lot worse. And there are parts that are obviously messed up and it can be heard. But overall, it is very nice.

I'm not comparing this recording to any of the others I have for 1975-02-12 tonight and I am solely going off of how the sound I am listening to and critiquing it.

I'm not sure who the W.T.H. Twins are but they produced this 9 CD set according to the artwork. They also produced the recent Fort Worth 1975-03-03 show as well. I like the audio on the audience master recording, or CD's 4-6, and the mix on those discs. It really is an excellent stereo recording and mix. Page's guitar, Plant's vocals, and the rest of the bands instruments are all easily heard and evenly mixed for the show. The audience recording really sounds a lot like a great soundboard much of the time.

I still think it will be near impossible to ever beat the Definitive Flying Circus DVD-A (real DVD-A) copy of this show when it comes to sound. It is solely the soundboard recording I believe. I'd have to listen again to say positively this is the case. But even if it is patched with a little audience recording, the audio is spectacular. It's easy to listen to a show like this and say the same thing as you listen. But I know from my own comparisons in the last year that the DVD-A beats all other copies in my opinion. I've uploaded the 1975-02-12 DVD-A here in the past so it is available if you want to check it out and compare it yourself.

Even with the clipped audio in the first three disc, this is a very easy to enjoy set of discs and a great show to listen to. This was when Led Zeppelin was really picking up their steam and starting to play much better shows after a little bit of a rocky start in January of 1975. Maybe it was being at New York's Madison Square Garden, a venue and city they loved almost as much as the west coast in the earlier years, or maybe it was any number of reasons? But whatever the reason(s) were, they were on fire and burning through the United States and North America over the next month and a half on this tour for their upcoming LP Physical Graffiti. And we have the shows to prove it too! What great shows these were in 1975 in an era we'll never see again but we can relive again and again through shows like this one.

I just learned something as I let the show upload overnight and I went to bed. Today, I learned that the audience tracks 501 - 503 are lossy. I wouldn't just claim this without proof normally but the friend that found this out I trust and he wouldn't have messaged me about it if he wasn't sure. So EVSD put at least the first three tracks on CD 5 on in aq lossy MPEG format it sounds like.I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Today is the 46th anniversary of this excellent sounding first generation recording of the Ten years After show in Helsinki in 1969. This is an off-air recording and is very clean and mixed very well. I have two copies of this exact recording. One is a remaster and the other is this one that has not been remastered.

The waveform looks good and the audio is balanced well. There is some right channel audio clipping on the first two tracks in the waveform of each but it looks like it was likely a recording level issue and it was fixed. And as far as I could hear listening to the show today, it is not anything you will hear or notice. It's not a bad issue or problem at all.

It cracks me up as Alvin Lee is talking before "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl". He is saying that the song will probably be their last song and the crowd can be heard doing the "noooo...booo" kind of thing showing they want to hear more. He just calmly says "But it's 5 hours long" in a joking manner. And of course it isn't the last song either as they do play another.

A special thanks goes to Erik for originally sharing the show and to "LB" for posting it on Dime.I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Today is the 44th anniversary of this Led Zeppelin show. This recording comes from a label and I am getting an unprocessed, third generation copy of the show from a friend soon that I believe should sound even better.

I have not heard this show all of the way through in about 15 years. And the copy I got in a trade so many years ago was a bad copy where the trader had likely burned the discs at too fast of a speed leaving pops and clicks on the audio. But this copy being shared today is an accurate and perfect EAC rip.

I'm not reviewing much of the concert recording since I want to get it uploaded. But from what I've listened to tonight, I'd say it is a great-to-excellent recording but it does have some issues too. This really is an awesome sounding show but it does have errors. Read below for some more details.

One thing I do not like about this Electric Magic label copy is they did a little bit of brickwalling on the audio. It isn't horrible or terrible like some shows we have seen have been ruined by labels doing this. But at the same time, any brickwalling is bad and it makes it more difficult to impossible to do any work, fixing, EQ'ing, or anything to the audio when it is bad.

This show has a clean and bright sound to it but it is over amplified by the label and there is some distortion too in some places. You can also hear some tape noises, similar to the tape squealing we'd hear when the heads or tape would begin messing up, in parts of the show. The label amplifies the audio in some songs, like in "Heartbreaker", during quieter moments and this makes the tapes noise more noticeable than if they had just left things alone.

Plant's voice and the rest of the band are very up front and great sounding in the mix as I am listening to the early part of the show. The crowd is relatively quiet too not being caught too often by the recorder. The mix is great and I can only hope the third generation copy I get will not have the tape issues in it. This would be more along the lines of a superb recording if the label messing with the sound, the small amount of tape squealing, and the distortion heard in some areas was not there. But this is a very easy show to listen to and enjoy and one I definitely recommend. It is a show not seen very often.

This show also seems complete and it has some more rare songs the band plays on this night as you can see in the setlist. That is always a big plus and I think it is an indication many times of how good of a time (and performance) the band was having and putting on during shows where they add rarities like these.

I'm uploading the show now so I can get it up on its anniversary which will end in less than an hour.

I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Today is the 37th anniversary of this killer Queen show in Montreal. I'm not going to take a lot of time and write up a bunch of stuff on this one tonight. I've never heard the full show, I've only sampled it, and I don't have a lot of time to spend on making the post tonight.

My initial sampling of the show told me it is an excellent-to-superb sounding recording. I really think the whole recording is likely this way too but since I have not heard the show yet I cannot say for sure.

I really like this era of Queen and the songs they played between 1973 and about 1979 especially. They rocked and Brian May played his heart out on his guitar. They would have been a great band to have seen but I never got a chance unfortunately.

There is some very light clipping in the waveform of a few songs but it is nothing bad at all. The audio looked fine and there was no heavy clipping anywhere.

I like to make sure I am spelling song titles and other things correctly when I add them to a post. But tonight, other than a few I know were incorrect, I'm adding the song titles as they were on the info sheet I had for this show. This is a recent share (a month or two ago) on Dime and I know the audio comes from the collection of "yono66". Other than that, I cannot tell you much more.

The one thing that sticks out to me in this recording is the even mix and how well the full frequency spectrum is present in the audio. The lows and high are perfectly balanced and it sounds like this is a soundboard much of the time. Whoever the taper was had great seats for this show. The recording has great stereo separation too.

Alright, I'm done talking and I'm uploading the show. You won't be disappointed if you're a Queen fan by the sound in this recording or the performance from what I've heard as I prepared this post!

I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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This is another superb soundboard and maybe the best sounding source for this last show in Dallas in 1975 for the band. There are a lot of labels, copies, remasters, and the likes for this night and the previous night's show in Dallas too. And with the release of the new, previously unavailable Fort Worth show from the 1975-03-03 concert, we now have all of the 1975 North Texas shows.

I'm listening to this show right now because I have had it for a long time but I got a fresh EAC rip of it earlier today and it was done right. I've not really heard this show like I'm hearing it now because the previous copy I had was butchered by bad software and a person who didn't know how to accurately extract data from their discs.

A special thanks goes out to "Amduscia" for this EAC rip and share done the right way!

The
show is a superb soundboard recording. EVSD had released a copy earlier that had micro gaps in the recording. Honestly, I have no clue what a micro gap is. Fans fixed it but then EVSD re-released the show again but fixed and with no micro gaps. And now they've done another re-release in one of their box sets that come with the 1975-03-05, 1975.03-04, and 1975-03-03 Dallas and Fort Worth shows.

There are also other labels that have released their work on these shows (except Fort Worth still) and all of the recordings sound great. But the word is that this Wendy Babushka Lady copy is the best sounding and cleanest version. And I have to agree with what I am hearing now. Without doing a full blown comparison with other copies I cannot say for sure. But I did do a comparison earlier today before I burned this copy and even on the PC Bose speakers the sound is better. And the mix I believe has a lot to do with the sound quality and how superb it is.

Babushka Lady reportedly is a reference to another woman that supposedly had photographed or filmed more detailed material when President John F Kennedy was shot on 1963-11-22 in Dallas, Texas and killed. I never knew this until earlier today as I was ready some posts on this question. The person who reported what the title was in reference to said they got the information from Wikipedia.com. And it makes perfect sense since the previous night in Dallas was titled Zapruder on the Wendy label. And we all know the Zapruder film is the most detailed and widely seen video of JFK's assassination out there. So I guess Wendy decided to use the JFK assassination as their theme for the release of these two Dallas shows. It's a good thing they didn't realize Kennedy had stayed in Fort Worth up until the point where he was killed almost. Oh, but wait! Wendy hasn't release the Fort Worth show (are they still releasing anything?).

I am really excited by how superb this show sounds. Unlike the EVSD copy where they over amplify parts of the show, and it still sounds good, Wendy has no clipping in the audio and it sounds like the mix brings out every instrument and vocals in a perfect fashion. It really is that much better the more I listen to the concert. I sure am glad "Amduscia" ripped his silver CD's and shared them the other day because this is the perfect mix and likely the very best recording of this Dallas show to date.

I'm listening to "Kashmir" right now and it is one of my least favorite Led Zeppelin songs. But in this copy I am hearing Page playing guitar that I have never heard in other mixes of this show. It is awesome sounding and really makes the song a lot better.

In closing, the mix here packs a powerful punch in all areas. The high frequencies are sharp, crisp, and very clean and the low frequencies are very powerful, not distorted, and the combination of the two sounds like the best mix of this show out there. The setlist is the same as the Fort Worth show but the sound here on this night as well as Robert Plant's voice definitely sounds better. And Fort Worth sounds superb too so that should tell you something about this Dallas show.

I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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This is an great-to-excellent audience recording of a show we already have a superb 3 CD recording of. It is the source 1 audience recording of the Led Zeppelin 1975-02-16 St. Louis show. It is not the complete show and it starts at "Kashmir" and runs through until the end of the show.

I really do not know the story on this recording or why it is incomplete. It may be the taper got to the show late, thought they we taping the first part of the show, or maybe they didn't bring enough tape and taped over the first part of the show? There are too many possibilities. But what we have is actually a very good and enjoyable recording of over half of the show.

Thanks to "orangeboy" for sharing this source 1 recording over on R-O!

I fixed an error in the CD tracking. More than an error it is really an oversight and I'm sure it is something Led Note could have and should have easily fixed but did not. Led Note had "Whole Lotta Love", "Out On The Tiles", and "Black Dog" all stuck together as one track. And to be honest, "Out On The Tiles" is not a song played in Led Zeppelin shows (most of them anyhow) and is just the beginning music to "Black Dog" and rarely listed as a song. I separated "Whole Lotta Love" and "Black Dog" into two tracks like it normally is in a show. Since the artwork Led Note made has "Out On The Tiles" listed on it I went ahead and titled "Black Dog" as "Out On the Tiles ~ Black Dog" so nobody mistakenly thinks they got ripped off a song.

The show could have been tracked better too but I am not complaining. The source 2 recording of this show is a more complete, but still incomplete recording of the show. It sounds good-to-great. It has an issue with distortion however. But this source 1 recording sounds much better even though it is not as complete. The recording has a more full sounding audio range to it that doesn't suffer from the same amount of distortion that source 2 has. Source 1 does have something happen (listen to "Stairway To Heaven") that causes some temporary distortion in the recording. It may just be the record level was turned up to high because you can hear the level being raised at the beginning of the song. Part of the song is distorted and part of it sounds excellent.

I had thought about making a mix using both audience sources and I still may. I think the reason this has not been done is because (a) we have the better sounding soundboard of the show and (b) we have the more complete soundboard of the show. The soundboard recording is about 20 minutes longer than the more complete audience recording (source 2) is.

This source 1 audio is a much better audio and it doesn't sound like it has the processing or EQ work done to it like most labels do. I really wonder if Led Note left the recording alone and did not try to EQ it. I hope that is the case. The high frequencies are there and Jimmy Page's guitar as well as Robert Plant's vocals sound nice. The low frequencies also sound nice and John Paul Jones' bass and keyboard as well as John Bonham's drums sound really good too. The overall mix is pretty even and it results in great-to-a excellent sound and mix.

The recording is not without errors. During "Trampled Underfoot", at the 5:53 mark, the left channel drops out and the audio is only heard in the right channel up through the 8:17 mark. This continues into the following track, "Moby Dick", for close to two more minutes when the left channel comes back into play.

There are other issues in the recording I heard and I'm sure there are some I didn't hear too. I did notice the final track, "Heartbreaker", sounds as if the taper was walking away when he realized the band was back for another song. The audience noise is not bad and even though there are a few places where you can hear the taper or other people in the audience talking in a low voice, it really is not bad and the taper did a good job of keeping quiet it sounded like.

I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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